# pandu
## Asturian
### Noun

pandu m (plural pandos)
* small plain or mountain meadow
* hill smaller than those around it

### Adjective

pandu m sg (feminine singular panda, neuter singular pando, masculine plural pandos, feminine plural pandes)
* flat
* plain
* smashed, smooshed-in
* deceptively wide (used to describe an object whose width obscures its shallowness)
    Escudiella panda, enlléname’l güeyu y sácame l’almaA wide/flat plate fills my eyes and strips me of my soul

## Indonesian
### Alternative forms

* pandoe (1901–1947)

### Etymology

From Malay pandu, from Classical Malay pandu,
* from Sanskrit पाण्डु (pāṇḍu, “Pandu, name of a king”, literally “yellowish white, white, pale”).
* from Old Javanese paṇḍo (“female attendant or servant”).
* Semantic loan from Dutch padvinder. Coined by Indonesian statesman Agus Salim in 1928.

### Pronunciation

* (Standard Indonesian) IPA: /ˈpandu/ [ˈpan.du]
* Rhymes: -andu
* Syllabification: pan‧du

### Noun

pandu (plural pandu-pandu)
* guard
* scout (a member of any number of youth organizations belonging to the international scout movement)
    Synonym: pramuka
* guide, pathfinder
* pilot (a person who steers a ship)
* pilot boat

#### Affixed terms

* berpandu
* berpandukan
* kepanduan
* memandu
* memandukan
* panduan
* pemandu
* pemanduan

### Further reading

* “pandu” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

## Malay
### Etymology

From Old Javanese paṇḍo (“female attendant or servant”). Sense of guide from semantic loan from Dutch padvinder coined by Indonesian statesman Agus Salim in 1928.

### Noun

pandu (Jawi spelling ڤندو, plural pandu-pandu, informal 1st possessive panduku, 2nd possessive pandumu, 3rd possessive pandunya)
* (obsolete) guard
* scout (a member of any number of youth organizations belonging to the international scout movement)
    Synonym: pengakap
* guide, pathfinder
* (obsolete) leader of a dance troupe
* (obsolete) pilot (a person who steers a ship)
    Synonym: pengemudi
* pilot boat

#### Usage notes

Use in Malaysia and Singapore survives in the name Pandu Puteri.

### Verb

memandu
* to guide, to drive
* to test, to try, to pioneer something
    Synonyms: cuba, uji, rintis
* (obsolete) to clear the forest of any brushwood and weeds for farming land
    Synonym: panduh

### Verb

berpandukan
* to be guided by something

#### Affixed terms

Regular affixed derivations:
* pemandu [agentive / qualitative / instrumental / abstract / measure] (peN-)
* panduan [resultative / locative / collective / variety / verbal noun / fruit] (-an)
* pemanduan [agentive / qualitative / instrumental / abstract / measure + resultative / locative / collective / variety / verbal noun / fruit] (peN- + -an)
* kepanduan [abstract / locative] (ke-an)

### References

* Pijnappel, Jan (1875) “ڤندو pandoe”, in Maleisch-Hollandsch woordenboek, John Enschede en Zonen, Frederik Muller, page 58
* Wilkinson, Richard James (1901) “ڤندو pandu”, in A Malay-English dictionary, Hong Kong: Kelly & Walsh limited, page 475
* Wilkinson, Richard James (1932) “pandu”, in A Malay-English dictionary (romanised), volume II, Mytilene, Greece: Salavopoulos & Kinderlis, page 206

### Further reading

* “pandu” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

## Portuguese
### Etymology

From Latin pandus. Editor note:$^{Latin-notdescendedfromPortuguese:Possiblyfrom(subjunctive)ofpandō}$ (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

### Noun

pandu m (plural pandus)
* (colloquial) stomach (organ)

## Swahili
### Noun

pandu class IX (plural pandu class X)
* type of large silvery fish